Dropping bombs from planes was unheard of until 1st November 1911, when Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti embarked on an aerial mission over Libya. With a handful of lightweight grenades resting in his lap, he headed to Ain Zara, a village near Tripoli, and chucked them overboard.
This audacious act occurred only eight years after the Wright brothers' initia ... Show More
Today
The £21,000 Masque
With a cast of over 800, and a budget equivalent to £3 million, James Shirley’s extravagant masque ‘The Triumph of Peace’ was performed on 3rd February, 1634. Unusually, it was such a popular show that, despite the enormous cost of staging it, King Charles I and Queen Henrietta M ... Show More
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Yesterday
The Truth Machine
Leonarde Keeler, inventor of the modern polygraph, first showcased his device in a courtroom on 2nd February, 1935. The wooden box, which measured physiological responses like blood pressure and respiration, took the stand alongside him, and, while Keeler emphasized the machine w ... Show More
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May 2024
L'antimilitarisme, une passion française [Le Fil de l'Epée #17]
<p>Invité : Eric Fournier, maître de conférences à l’université Panthéon-Sorbonne, co-directeur de "A bas l’armée. L’antimiliarisme en France du XIXe siècle à nos jours" (Editions de la Sorbonne, 2023)</p><br><p>Définition et balbutiements de l’antimilitarisme au XIXe siècle (1:3 ... Show More
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<p>Anyone who watched early superhero shows years ago recalls opening <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvAs5ppkRw" rel="nofollow">scenes</a> where bystanders gawking skyward exclaim, “<em>Look, up in the sky, it’s a bird!…</em> "<em>It’s a plane!</em> "<em>It’s…< ... Show More
